Pastor Paul improves, plus an exciting report from ALG President Pastor Peter Haneef

Pastor Peter Haneef recently flew from ministry with his team in Bangladesh for several visits with Pastor Paul, who is still in the ICU of a Kerala hospital. Pastor Peter serves as President of the ALG (Assembly of Loving God, the umbrella organization for all Bibles for Mideast churches) and is second-in-command of Bibles for Mideast after Director Pastor Paul.

He had to get special authorization to go into the ICU the first day, and says that with the doctor’s permission, he was able to lay hands on and pray over Pastor Paul. At that point, Pastor Paul opened his eyes, saw who was visiting him and became quite emotional. As he attempted to get up, the doctor helped him rise partially at least, and when he tried to speak, only a few words came out. Still, the doctor felt it a good sign.  “Certainly our Lord will heal him soon and miraculously use him for His Kingdom,” Pastor Peter reports. “We hope it in our Lord Jesus.”

When Pastor Peter visited again the next day, they had a similar experience. Pastor Peter explained to him much of what he and others had been doing, about all our prayers, and is certain all he spoke was understood.

“I prayed again and left the room,” he says. “Surely he will come out of this situation shortly, because the whole church and many saintly children of God praying for him from around the world. Praise and thank the Lord. Glory to His name.”

For the last two months, Pastor Peter has been ministering alongside his five-member team in the jungles and villages of north and east India as well as in northern Bangladesh. His team had remained behind to continue the mission work in Bangladesh when he’d come to visit Pastor Paul.

“We were visiting houses, praying for the sick, doing personal evangelism, conducting prayer and fasting services and public meetings,” he explains.

Bangladeshi village people who met with the team and attended meeting

“Many sick people were miraculously healed, and thousands of people have accepted our Lord Jesus as their savior and Lord.”

During those two months, the team established an astounding 79 ALG churches! In some places, he says, “Hindu and Muslim fundamentalists came to attack us, but villagers as well as jungle people protected us and stood against the attackers.”

In one jungle village, a 50-year-old man had been bedridden since his boyhood, his backbone fully destroyed when a wild elephant attacked him. His sisters had been caring for him.

“During our prayer and fasting,” Pastor Peter explains, “he was filled with the Holy Spirit, jumped down among the praying people, dancing and praising the Lord! Several whole jungle villages then turned to the Lord!”

In another village, a blind woman could see after being prayed for, and many sick were healed in other places they visited.

At one point, one ALG missionary couple was accused of converting others to Christianity, arrested, and given a five-year prison sentence. Pastor Peter attempted to intervene by posting bail for them and while successful with the wife, Sheeja, he couldn’t manage to help her husband, Jose. He says they have lawyers there now still working on getting bail for him as the case drags on.

“Once again thank you for your prayers and support,” he says.

Please keep up the prayer shield as Pastor Peter makes his way back to the mission field, and as our dear Pastor Paul continues his recovery. His son Lesly reported from the hospital a few days ago that his doctors consider his progress a miracle! May they be touched through all this as well, Lord.